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Does anyone know if it's possible to install Windows 2000 to a Dell Latitude E6400? It appears this laptop is from 2010 and supports XP, Vista, and 7. It also has a 64 bit processor. I've tried to install it, but get a BSOD, even with F7 method. Any help is greatly appreciated!

I tested this with a Windows 7 laptop that I had and it worked successfully. Only problem is that it installed Windows 7 Home Basic despite it being an Ultimate ISO that was used. Also, there is a part mentioning a cert1 and cert2 file. If your graphics driver features your processor in it already (I.E. You did not have to edit the inf file), then you do not need the cert1 and cert2 files. You can just skip injecting those and inject your graphics driver. If you do have to modify the inf, than those will be needed.

Solved: I solved the problem using the guide from this thread: This guide was not made by me, but rather bloodhandsv over at Notebook Review. I am just sharing it for other people who may not have known this existed.

Most computers made from 2010, especially those after Windows 8's release come with UEFI firmware, however, those also have the legacy BIOS option, which is what many people set the BIOS to when trying to set up Windows 7 on modern computers, but what if your BIOS does not have a legacy option? Newer Class 3 UEFI BIOS does not have a legacy mode and you'll notice that if you try and run the Windows 7 installation USB (after creating it in something like Rufus with UEFI/GPT options selected), it will freeze on the "Starting Windows" animation and all you'll most likely see are just four dots instead of the fully formed Windows logo. How do we overcome this issue? What is the cause? Does my media creation tool such as Rufus not properly handle the UEFI/GPT options? Overcoming the issue is as simple (or complex) as adding in a driver to the Windows 7 media. The problem does not lie with your media creation tool, but rather a quirk in one of Windows 7's Basic driver. The cause of this freezing issue has to do with the Microsoft Basic Display Adapter. This driver and UEFI do not get along, and so to get UEFI to work, you have to integrate your graphics driver into the media using something like DISM (you may need a Windows 10 installation for it). If your graphics hardware supports 7 out of the box and your graphics card is in the inf file, then no modding is needed and you can just integrate it to the media, after which you can build it up using Rufus. Since you will most likely be installing Windows 7 to a modern processor, some inf modding is required. Since modding the files unsigns the driver and Windows installer doesn't like that, we will have to resign them. Luckily, there is a guide that shows how to do this. This guide comes courtesy of bloodhandsv over at Notebook Review. This guide is written for the Acer Spin 5 and Intel Graphics, but can be applied to your hardware.

Ah. I was trying to get it to work with UEFI so I could then install 8.1 and 10 in that mode as well.

It is! The pictures below show my specs. I will do so. I have a laptop from 2013 that has UEFI boot (and secure boot too I believe), but shipped with Windows 7 (UEFI was disabled though) Interesting. This laptop does support both (how I got it working in the first place). You have a guide or know of one for how to modify the bootloader? Also, if it doesn't work with UEFI, why does Rufus select it automatically when I prepare it.

Hi! I created a Windows 7 installation media in UEFI mode using Rufus with the intent to install it on an Acer Aspire A315-21 from 2019, but when I booted up the disk, it did the "Starting Windows" animation, but then froze after the Windows logo was formed. This media did not have USB 3.0 drivers slipstreamed as this laptop also came with USB 2.0 ports in addition to 3.0 (and those 2.0 ports do work with 7's setup). The hardware is AMD Radeon R4 Graphics, AMD A6 Processor(?) and AMD USB 2.0 and 3.0,, all of which supports Windows 7. In the BIOS, I disabled Secure Boot (by setting a supervisor password from the BIOS. UEFI was still enabled obviously), but left everything else except for supervisor password untouched. Does anyone have a fix for this freezing problem? I can boot from the USB using the 2.0 ports without any need for 3.0 drivers from what I can tell, but it freezes after the "Starting Windows" animation plays and the Windows logo is complete and shown. Any help is greatly appreciated here! Solved: I solved the problem using the guide from this thread: This guide was not made by me, but rather bloodhandsv over at Notebook Review. I am just sharing it for other people who may not have known this existed.

Got Windows 2000 updated as well as Extended Kernel and Core installed. Only problem is I can't seem to get Intel Graphics for the Sandy Bridge processor to work. Anyone here know of a solution?

Are they all the updates released from SP4's release to the OS' end of life in 2010? If so, please do share! I need this machine fully up to date before I can install the Extended Kernel/Core, after which I will try to use the Sandy Bridge XP drivers on this. I will keep searching for a wireless/ethernet driver. If I find one that works, I'll let you know.

Thanks for this! Only problem is I don't have a valid Ethernet or Wireless driver yet as this is on real hardware, an Acer Aspire E1-531 with Sandy Bridge and Intel Pentium B960 to be exact. I'm gonna look and see if I can find either an Ethernet or Wireless driver, but I am open to your guys help too! I have Broadcom Ethernet and Atheros AR5B125 Wireless (which I can couple with Boingo Wireless Connection Manager). USB 2.0 is presently broken (due to a bug that 2000 has with USB 2.0 on hardware such as Sandy Bridge) so a wireless adapter is out of the question unless someone can help me get that working.

Does anyone know how I fully update Windows 2000 now that Windows Update is dead for it? Want to install the 2000 Extended Kernel, but need to update the machine first. Thanks in advanced for your help!

I have an Acer Aspire E1-531 with Sandy Bridge and Intel Pentium B960 CPU. I have installed Windows 2000 to it, but USB 2.0 is not working, forcing me to have to go into Linux just to copy something over (and I had to do this once to delete USBhub20.sys). How do I get USB 2.0 working?

You could try the F7 trick. If that doesn't work, @blackwingcat made a SATA driver that you can insert with the F6 option, or you can inject it into the ISO with something like nlite. That option is recommended as you wouldn't need to use a USB Floppy Drive for it (and those along with the associated disks would be hard to find outside of some rando selling one). You will also most likely get a BSOD relating to USBhub20.sys. Using Rufus to prepare a Linux USB and then booting directly to it from the USB, you can find the W2k drive, point to the USBhub20.sys, back it up to a different USB, and then delete it. This will allow W2K to boot. To get USB working, you need to install it manually (I mentioned this above), but am not sure on how to do that. Hopefully someone has a fix for your problem as well as mine.

First things first, here are my computer specs: Acer Aspire E1-531 from 2013 Sandy Bridge Intel Pentium with B960 2.20GHz CPU (if this is not a part of Sandy Bridge, please let me know) and 64 bit processor 8GB of Ram with Physical Address Extension (Just copying what the My Computer Properties show. Only 2.65 GB is visible in XP, and most likely in 2000 as well) Dual-boot of Windows 2000 (incomplete) and Windows XP (complete with drivers such as Intel Graphics and Wireless internet. Posting from it now. Also using it as it to copy files to the Windows 2000 partition). Qualcomm Atheros AR5B125 Wireless Internet Adapter (built-in). If you need any more specs, please do let me know and I can grab them for you guys. Now that is out of the way, here's what is going on. I successfully set up a dual-boot of Windows 2000 and Windows XP. For the installation of 2000, I had to mash the F7 key upon setup starting in order to proceed. When it was finished, it blue screened with a USBhub20.sys error. Loading up Linux straight from the USB and deleting that file allowed the OS to boot, but without USB support. I then setup Windows XP, with that drive being the same as the 2000 drive. My questions are: 1. When I was choosing the partition size for Windows 2000, it only showed 137GB. How do I make 2000 see more? I have googled and seen that there is some sort of registry trick that is needed. What is the stuff that I need to merge into the registry? After I apply the trick, would I just be able to use partition magic (or wizard) to expand the partition size (I want it to be around 250GB and equal with Windows XP, which will also be made bigger so 2000 and it are equal sizes)? 2. How do I get the USB ports working in 2000? Everything I have seen is that I need to manually install a driver or something for it, but am not really sure what they mean by that. Where do I find this installation file? And do I put USBhub20.sys back into the WINNT folder afterwards? 3. How do I get Windows 2000 and XP to see the full 8GB of RAM? I have seen a PAE hack is involved here, but am unsure of how to do that. 4. Since Windows Update is dead for 2000, how do I go about fully updating it for the Extended Kernel and Extended Core 16a (or whatever that Extended Kernel complement is called)? I do have a fully up to date 2000 machine on a different laptop, but that was done with Windows Update right before it went down. 5. And lastly, how do I get drivers such as Intel Sandy Bridge graphics and Qualcomm Athers AR5B125 working under 2000? Everything I have seen involves using Extended Core 16a(?) in conjunction with Extended Kernel, but I tried that on a prior 2000 install on this machine (this was made before I wiped it and dual-booted it with XP), and trying to install the graphics and wireless drivers didn't work. Manual install via Have Disk didn't work or in the case of the graphics exe, would tell me that a file didn't have an entry point called GetSystemWow64, leading me to believe I didn't fully update the machine properly. So sorry for these questions, but I really want to try and run Windows 2000 from this laptop and I will take any solutions you guys have, especially @blackwingcat's. I know XP works. I have it fully updated in terms of drivers; graphics, wireless internet, the works (I used Driver Booster to help me. It really simplified the process so I wasn't having to hunt all over Google for the XP drivers), and am using it as I type this. I know BWC has gotten Windows XP drivers to work, so I am confident 2000 will work here with a bit of tinkering. Again, any solution you guys have will be greatly appreciated! :)

I tried the Windows XP driver, but I keep getting an Entry Point Not Found message when trying to load the Sandy Bridge driver. It tells me that the procedure entry point GetSystemWow64 cannot be found in ntdll or something similar. Trying to manually install the driver through the .inf file appears to work, but after reboot, device manager has error 31 (cannot load the driver files). Maybe I didn't update Windows 2000 properly? How do I do that now that Windows Update is dead? I did find an iso file that had updates within a YouTube video that I tried, but am not sure of it. Any help is greatly appreciated!

Never mind. Found them!

Has anyone gotten Intel Sandy Bridge Graphics drivers to work with Windows 2000? I have an Acer Aspire E1-531 from 2013 where I successfully installed 2000 to. To do so, I had to switch the HDD mode from AHCI to IDE and then mash F7 when setup started (so it wouldn't freeze at "Setup is starting Windows 2000"). After installation, I had to fix a BSOD by deleting USBhub20.sys from within a Linux USB. This allowed Windows to boot, but with absolutely no USB support. My question is, has anyone gotten Intel Sandy Bridge drivers to work with Windows 2000? I have an Intel Pentium B960 2.20 GHz, which is part of Sandy Bridge. I know Windows XP works as I found drivers for that so I'm guessing I would need to modify the XP drivers? Also, how do you solve the USB driver issue? I currently can't copy anything to it unless I do so from Linux (the DVD's that I have were prepared in XP or later and as it states when choosing how to use the DVD, the live file system only works on XP and later unlike the burn option). And a few more things. My laptop has a Qualcomm Atheros AR5B125 Wireless Card. Is there any way to get the XP drivers working under 2000? I've got Boingo Wireless Connection Manager at the ready, just need the drivers. And for the others such as chipset, would I just do the same as the other? Thanks in advanced for your guys help on this!

Sorry. I was just sharing this for the people who want to try this out, but don't want to wipe their currently installed OS. Rufus didn't work, but I'm hoping NT 6.x does. EDIT: That didn't work. Produced a blue screen. If anyone wants to try and get external USB HDD working with Vista, be my guess. Everything you need is here, in this YT video. Anywho, that's the last I'll harp on this.

EDIT: Rufus' Windows To Go feature only works on 8.1 and 10, but it should still work with Vista. Trying it out now to see. Waiting for the media to finish creating. You guys may or may not know this, but you can install Windows Vista to an external USB HDD. It doesn't have to be a physical HDD ripped from a computer and connected with USB SATA (though it will work), rather, you can use any external USB HDD. These can include WD My Passport and WD easystore. Here's the super easy steps to do this, and it involves a program that I'm sure many of you have used, but did not know could do this. 1. Grab the Windows Vista Ultimate updated to 2017 EOS ISO and copy it to the desired machine you will be using Vista on. 2. Grab Rufus portable from here. 3. Insert your HDD. If you have anything on it, back that up elsewhere. Afterwards, go to Computer (or This PC), right click the drive, and then format it. Afterwards, open up Manage by right clicking This PC or Computer. Go to Disk Management, right click your USB HDD and select Mark as Active. 4. Next, open up Rufus. It won't show the drive right away, but choose the ISO. Under Target System should be Windows To Go. Select that and then select MBR. Select Show Advanced Drive Properties and select List USB Hard Drives. Also select Use Rufus MBR with BIOS ID. After this, select Start. 5. Wait for it to finish and once it does, restart. Go into BIOS and ensure it is set to boot from USB HDD. Let it boot and it should load Vista. This is a great alternative if you don't want to replace your existing OS with Vista. You can also eek out more space as well. Not sure if dual-boots will work, but I imagine if you carve out the desired space for each OS you want, name it with the OS that is going on it, and then running Rufus with the above steps (replacing Vista with your desired OS), it should work. You will have to install each OS before moving on to the others. If you try this on a laptop with USB 3.0 ports, you will most likely get a 0x07b Inaccessible Boot Device Blue Screen of Death. Not sure if @win32 has a solution. This is likely due to USB 3.0 drivers being absent, but Windows 7, which produces this same error on USB 3.0 hardware, does not load even with USB 3.0 drivers slipstreamed. Maybe the driver for the USB HDD has to be slipstreamed, I'm not sure. EDIT: Rufus' Windows To Go feature only works on 8.1 and 10, but it should still work with Vista. Trying it out now to see. Waiting for the media to finish creating. Rufus' Windows To Go did not work with Vista. I got the loading screen to pop up and it stayed there for a bit before stopping and throwing a brief Blue Screen of Death and restarting automatically. Using F8's Disable Automatic Restart on System Failure revealed the error to be 0x07b Inaccessible Boot Device. The laptop at hand is a Dell Latitude E6400 from around 2010 (before USB 3.0 was adopted onto new computers). This does not have USB 3.0 and it currently has a dual-boot of Windows XP (32bit) and Windows Vista with Extended Kernel (64bit obviously). The external USB HDD at hand is a Western Digital My Passport with 1TB of space. It also has a blue USB 3.0 connector, but the Latitude can still read the drive nonetheless. I did have to use Windows 8.1 to install Vista to it as Rufus' Windows To Go option only appears on that and 10. I then tried to finish the installation on the Latitude, but the aforementioned problem happened. This does not appear to be a USB/USB driver issue in this instance as all the ports are 2.0 meaning no USB driver has to be slipstreamed. I'm thinking this has something to do with the driver for the drive itself, like I need to slipstream that into the Vista media, but Windows auto driver update can't seem to install the driver. This doesn't affect usability of the drive as it still works without its driver. I should note that Windows 7 does work with a similar method, using Hasleo WinToUSB instead, but that either installing onto a system with pure USB 3.0 ports (and having no 2.0 ports or BIOS fallback to those) or installing the 3.0 driver afterwards causes the 0x07b BSOD. Integrating the drivers, even the Windows 8 generic one that was "hacked" to work with Vista/7 does not work. This means I can't run 7 on my eMMC drive exclusive Acer Aspire R3-131T There is one other method that I am going to try thanks to a Google search. I'll get back to you guys on the results of that.

It should. the uefi files are only needed if you installed using UEFI BIOS. If you installed using Legacy BIOS, you are good, and don't need the UEFI files.

Firefox version 81 works with Extended Kernel. Not sure of any major issues since I only went to Google, but videos would probably be a problem since I believe versions beyond the 60's have issues with some videos. If you want to test this out, but aren't sure of how to do it, go to this thread for a tutorial. Credit goes to WinClient5270 and TatsuyaSou for the tutorials. I just took them and compiled it into one, hopefully easy to follow tutorial so you don't have to hunt between a YouTube Video and a thread.

Has anyone gotten Intel Graphics to work on Intel Haswell/Broadwell processors? I have a Celeron N3050, which is derived from one of those, and can't seem to get anything to work. Win32 DMed me a Windows XP Haswell driver, but nothing. Also, FireFox 81 works as a charm. Setup.exe didn't work, so you have to uninstall your existing FireFox, recreate the Mozilla Firefox folder in Program Files (x86), and then copy the files over. You can then create a shortcut to Firefox.exe by right clicking it and clicking create shortcut, at which point it will be put automatically on the desktop. You can also remove the .exe - shortcut stuff that gets added to the name so it is just Firefox. To pull this off, do the following, which was obtained from this video by WinClient5270 and this thread by TatsuyaSou: 1. Go to the FireFox website and act like you're going to download it. Cancel the download prompt that pops up and scroll down. There should be a link called "Download FireFox for a different OS". Click it, leave all the options the same (Windows, x64, etc), and it should download FireFox 81. 1.5 (Optional). If you don't have 7zip, grab it now from the 7zip site and set it up. If you also don't have CFF Explorer, grab that now as well. A link to that is available in the YouTube Video I linked above. 2. Right click the Firefox installer, hover over 7zip, and then click Open Archive. Extract everything there to the desktop. 3. Open the folder you just extracted and in the search bar type in *.exe This will show only the exe's, and files that have .exe, but which otherwise end in a different extension (such as .config). 4. Right click each exe and click on open in CFF Explorer. Navigate to Optional Header and you should see two fields that have 0006 and a 0001 under MajorOperatingSystemVersion, MinorOperatingSystemVersion, MajorSubsystemVersion, and MinorSubsystemVersion. This refers to the version number. Leave the 6 intact, but change the 0001 to 0000. Do this to the other 0001 as well, and then save. If the exe has a 0004 and a 0000 in place of the 0006 0001, don't edit that. Check every exe except the ones that end in .exe.InsertFileExtensionHere. Those were included in the search as they include .exe even though that is not the files official extension. 5. Afterwards, open back up Firefox.exe, navigate to Import Table, then to ntdll.dll, and then change the entry RtlQueryPerformanceCounter to NtQueryInformationProcess. Save the file and test it out 6. Open Firefox and it should open up just fine. 7. If you wish, you can uninstall your current Firefox installation and move the files for the new one to the Mozilla Firefox folder in Program Files (x86) (you will have to recreate the folder since the other one got deleted), and then create a shortcut to the Firefox.exe, which will automatically get placed on the desktop. If you want it to look official, you can remove the .exe - Shortcut junk from the name so it reads simply Firefox instead of Firefox.exe - Shortcut. 8. Credit goes to WinClient5270 and TatsuyaSou for these methods. I am just posting it here so people don't have to hunt all over for this information. I should note that I have no idea if Firefox 81 has any major problems as I only went to Google, but I imagine videos would be a problem since people reported those in prior versions beyond the 60's I think.

Got the CD's, burned the Windows Vista x64 with updates to EOL file to it, and got it installed on my HP 15-f233wm. Now I need to install Ubuntu and I will be rocking and rolling.

I added in my processor, and got an error when trying to install. The error is in the last photo, which also shows a snipping tool error, rendering it unusable. My processor is the AMD Stoney Radeon R4 98E4. It is the second to last processor in the first photo. EDIT: I copied all the processor info for the 98E4 from the Windows 7 graphics package (which did not initially include my variant of the 98E4 until I added it in the INF), and then added in references to Stoney by CTRL+F (Find), searching for R505, copying all the data associated with it, pasting it below and changing all the references from R505 to Stoney, and then installed it. The first time, I got "There is no driver or device element selected", the second time I got "Windows has stopped this device because it reported problems (Code 43)". Not sure what to do now.

Ok. Also, I discovered an error. Snipping Tool does not work. I tried to open it up and got an error that snipping tool isn't working right now. Picture of error soon to come.